History Main / OldTimeyBathingSuit

* [[http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kq08ffMluE1qzmf78o1_500.jpg Wednesday]] and Pugsley Addams wear matching suits like this in the second ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'' movie.
* Creator/DickVanDyke sports a red-and-white striped one-piece in ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang''.
* In the film ''Film/DonovansReef'', Amelia, a Bostonian visiting French Polynesia, is given one which she applies RipTailoring to after embarrassing Donovan.
* Anna Muir is sketched in hers by the unscrupulous Miles Fairley in ''Film/TheGhostAndMrsMuir'' (1947, set at the beginning of the 20th century), causing mild scandal to her maid, Martha.
* The title character of ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' wears one in the movie version as part of Mrs. Lovett's DreamSequence during "By The Sea".
* In the short "Restless Knights", Film/TheThreeStooges play medieval court wrestlers -- Moe and Curly incongruously wear striped old-timey suits, while Larry even more incongruously wears a leopard-skin caveman outfit.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: The Holliday Girls are rather curious to see what their middle aged dean looks like in a swimsuit, only for her swimsuit to be an old fashioned not form fitting striped thing with carpi-length pants.

-->Confront a wizard with the concept of a bathing suit and he'll start to get nervous. Why does it have to be so skimpy? he'll ask. Where can I put the gold embroidery? How can you have any kind of costume without at least forty useful pockets? And occult symbols made out of sequins? There appears to be no place for them. And where, when you get right down to it, are the lapels?\\

* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'': When attempting to blend in with Muggles, many wizards display a complete ignorance of appropriate fashion, and the results can be pretty hilarious. While viewing one of Dumbledore’s preserved memories (circa 1950’s), Harry sees Ministry of Magic representative Bob Ogden wearing “...a frock coat and spats over a striped, one-piece bathing costume.”

* In ''Literature/BellesOnTheirToes'', the girls are wearing skirted bathing suits with leggings in 1924, when one-piece suits are starting to become the norm. Mother's is even worse, described as "practically a Gay Nineties model" and able to pass for a circus tent. Martha scandalizes her sisters when she forgets her suit and decides to wear just the underpart of her mother's.
* Implied and discussed in Creator/FrederikPohl's multiverse-spanning novel ''The Coming of the Quantum Cats'' in which a version of the main male character in one timeline narrates that ''him'' going topless whilst swimming is considered daring -- he'd be arrested if caught. This goes towards demonstrating that the timeline in question is an OppressiveStatesOfAmerica, dominated by a morally-conservative government influenced by wealthy and powerful Arabs.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': The wizards wear these when they are [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial definitely not on a tropical beach holiday]] in ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', only made suitably wizardly:

* Earlier editions of ''Literature/TheFamousFive'' tell of them wearing "bathing suits", and the original illustrations show them wearing full-body bathing suits. Modern reprints have changed this to "bathing trunks".
* Referenced in ''More Misleading Cases in the Common Law'', when a man is tried for indecency because the council feel he should have been wearing something like this when swimming, and the judge throws the case out with the words "My father wore nothing but drawers. So do I!"
* In ''Return to Gone-Away'' by Elizabeth Enright, the children borrow bathing suits similar to these from their elderly neighbor Mr. Pindar Payton. At the advice of Mrs. Minnehaha Cheever, Mr. Payton's sister, the two girls wear boys' swimsuits because the girls' version would be rather cumbersome.

* ''Anime/{{Pecola}}: Pecola, Chewy and Rudy are seen wearing the striped one-piece version in the BeachEpisode "Gazelle's Goof".

* Anime/LupinIII is occasionally shown to wear one. It functions as a ShoutOut to the era that birth his famous literary grandfather.

* Eleanor of ''Manga/VictorianRomanceEmma'' visits the beach in a couple side-stories and can be seen wearing this type of outfit, complete with a mobile changing house. Her maid falls into the water when the house unexpectedly pulls away while she's sitting on the steps.

* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts: WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} has been known to wear this whenever he goes out in the water (i.e., "Hawaiian Holiday", "How To Swim", "WesternAnimation/{{Aquamania}}").

* Tom wears one in every BeachEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' (i.e., "Salt Water Tabby" & "Muscle Beach Tom"). Strangely enough, Tom still wears it in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTales'', 60 years later!

* Used in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' with the 1880s British couple Jonathan and Erina when they are on a date and playing around at a local river.

* Dupond and Dupont (Thomson and Thompson) wear [[http://luminescencias.blogspot.com/Dupont-Dupond.jpg old-fashioned bathing suits]] in one of the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' stories (though in this case they're not at the beach but in the desert, and think there's a lake in front of them.

* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: New Leaf'' introduced swimming as a new feature. In order to swim, the player has to don a wet suit that looks similar to these kinds of bathing suits. About eight different kinds are available and all can only be purchased on Tortimer Island.

* ''VideoGame/IttleDew 2'' has one such (male) bathing suit as an unlockable outfit for Ittle. With the stripes and the locker key tied to her ankle, it makes her look a bit like an escaped convict.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The Holliday Girls are rather curious to see what their middle aged dean looks like in a swimsuit, only for her swimsuit to be an old fashioned not form fitting striped thing with carpi-length pants.

Before the 20th century, people who wanted to go swimming in mixed company but keep their modesty would wear bathing costumes that covered nearly as much skin as their regular clothing. In fact, men could be arrested for swimming topless. These are relatively rare in Western culture in the current day, but are still used in cultures where body modesty is considered paramount, such as among Muslims (the style is called a "burqini"). [[note]]Interestingly, this style is in a sense being reintroduced to the West thanks to Muslim immigration; and with even Muslim women becoming fashion-conscious, non-Muslim women themselves are beginning to take a liking to them (they look a little like bodysurfing suits).[[/note]]

Note that in the late 19th century it was often still considered obscene to be seen ''even in an Old-Timey Bathing Suit'', and beaches installed elaborate [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathing_machine bathing machines]] to ensure there was no chance of [[FullyClothedNudity accidentally seeing a woman's legs]] from the beach. Annette Kellerman, the Australian swimmer who was one of the first women to attempt to swim the English Channel, was arrested for indecent exposure in Boston when she appeared in public in a swimsuit of her own design.

* All Might wears this style while overseeing Midoriya's training in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''. It both suits his "goofy dad" personality and hides the massive scarring on his torso.

* Dupond and Dupont (Thomson and Thompson) wear [[http://luminescencias.blogspot.com/Dupont-Dupond.jpg old-fashioned bathing suits]] in one of the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' stories (though in this case they're not at the beach but in the desert, and think there's a lake in front of them.

* A cartoon Whitney Darrow drew for ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' in the 1940's has two men chatting on a beach; the younger one is wearing a modern bathing suit, while the older one has one of these, and is saying "Believe it or not, this is the first vacation I've had in twenty-three years."

* Anna Muir is sketched in hers by the unscrupulous Miles Fairley in ''Film/TheGhostAndMrsMuir'' (1947, set at the beginning of the 20th century), causing mild scandal to her maid, Martha.

* In the film "Donovan's Reef", Amelia, a Bostonian visiting French Polynesia, is given one which she applies RipTailoring to after embarrassing Donovan.

* In ''Return to Gone-Away'' by Elizabeth Enright, the children borrow bathing suits similar to these from their elderly neighbor Mr. Pindar Payton. At the advice of Mrs. Minnehaha Cheever, Mr. Payton's sister, the two girls wear boys' swimsuits because the girls' version would be rather cumbersome.

* The wizards wear these when they are [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial definitely not on a tropical beach holiday]] in ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', only made suitably wizardly:

* The First Doctor imagines himself in one when aliens attempt to read his mind in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "The Space Museum".
* On one episode of ''Series/ILoveLucy,'' Lucy buys what Ricky assumes is a one-piece swimsuit for Little Ricky. It's actually for Lucy herself. "It stretches."
* ''Laugh-In'' features the cast dressed like this for a musical/comedy sketch dealing with the issue of chicken meat being used in hot dogs.

* ''Series/BassieEnAdriaan'': whenever they go swimming, Bassie will wear one of these.
* ''Series/NineteenKidsAndCounting'' revealed that the Duggar family mandates very modest swimwear, females wear [[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/242350023668089764/ skirted onesies]] while males are required to wear swim shirts.
* On ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', Sheldon and Amy wear these in one of their "[[ShowWithinAShow Fun With Flags]]" segments.

* Music/TheBeatles wore them along with straw boater hats on an early beachside photo shoot.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', there's a sidequest in which you can earn swimsuit costumes for some of your party members. Regal's swimsuit is in this style, although not striped... and this despite the fact that [[HandsomeLech Zelos]] gets a ''[[AnachronismStew speedo]]''. It could be justified as Tethe'allan fashion being outdated by our current standards, except the others all have modern-style swimwear, and the fact that there are ''bunny girls'' in Altamira. Which is where Regal is from and the swimsuit sidequest takes place. Fangirls were a little miffed about this one, too, but it was fortunately corrected in TheAnimeOfTheGame.
* One of [[TheOneGuy Zafira's]] [[AndYourRewardIsClothes unlockable swimsuits]] in ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable: The Gears of Destiny''. The other one is a {{Fundoshi}}.
* ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' has people wearing these in Columbia's Battleship Bay. That's right, the flying city even has a huge artificial beach.
* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: New Leaf'' introduced swimming as a new feature. In order to swim, the player has to don a wet suit that looks similar to these kinds of bathing suits. About eight different kinds are available and all can only be purchased on Tortimer Island.
* ''VideoGame/IttleDew 2'' has one such (male) bathing suit as an unlockable outfit for Ittle. With the stripes and the locker key tied to her ankle, it makes her look a bit like an escaped convict.
* Harris from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon64'' a man who wears one at the Swimming Festival.

* Cecania from ''Webcomic/SoreThumbs'' wears an early 20th-century swimsuit because her figure is so spectacular ''the U.S Congress passed a law specifically prohibiting her from wearing anything more revealing'' to protect public morality.
* Everyone, male and female, wears these in the BeachEpisode of ''Tiny Kitten Teeth'' except for Mewsli (who wears ordinary trunks). Since the comic is, by all indications, set in the present, this can likely be chalked up to the eccentricities of rich people.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
** Marge wears this in the ''Film/KingKong1933'' parody in one "Treehouse of Horror" episode.
** According to "Lady Bouvier's Lover", Marge's mother was once forced off the beach by police for "indecent exposure". She was wearing one of these, but [[OldTimeyAnkleTaboo it showed off too much "gam"]].
** Abe Simpson wears one on the beach in "Catch 'Em if You Can".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}''
** Olive Oyl is only ever seen in this kind of suit when at the beach.
** Popeye wore one at least once, already laughably out of date in the mid-1930s. He's called out for wearing one in ''I Wanna Be a Lifeguard'' and laughed at for how horribly out of date it is by everyone at the pool. The others (including Bluto) wear more fashionable swimsuits for the 1930s.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** The show takes it a step further with the Klimpaloon, a ''living'' bathing suit meant to spoof myths about the [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Yeti]]. As the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pCe-zlMjU says:]]
--->''He's the magical, old-timey bathing suit that lives in the Himalayas, they call him Klimpaloon. (Klimpaloon...)''
** One episode features a CorruptCorporateExecutive who runs a company that makes bathing suits and tries to abduct Klimpaloon as part of a scheme to increase the demand for this kind of bathing suit.
* The Paedofinder General in ''WesternAnimation/MonkeyDust'' wears one... which makes sense, since he would likely consider the exposure of skin in public to be [[PaedoHunt a form of paedophilia]].

** In the 1955 WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird cartoon "WesternAnimation/SandyClaws," Granny (often portrayed as an old-fashioned, turn-of-the-century schoolmarm), teases the audience that she is going to try on her "new bikini bathing suit" during a trip to the beach... and emerges from a beachhouse wearing a full bathing suit and shower cap. (Incidentally, this was the final Sylvester and Tweety cartoon to feature the "old-style" Granny, as voiced by Bea Bernadet. Future cartoons featured a re-styled Granny and her voice done by actress Creator/JuneForay.)

* In the Creator/TexAvery short "WesternAnimation/SwingShiftCinderella", the [[DirtyOldWoman randy old fairy godmother]] transforms her dress with a wand to go nightclubbing with the unwilling wolf. She accidentally ends up in an old-style swimsuit with a beauty contest sash that reads "Miss Repulsive 1893".
* Tom wears one in every BeachEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' (i.e., "Salt Water Tabby" & "Muscle Beach Tom"). Strangely enough, Tom still wears it in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTales'', 60 years later!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', being set in a 1920s analog, features this type of swimwear. When compared to the beach episode of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', it looks like fashion has grown more conservative in the 70-year timeskip. Alternately, Republic City might simply be colder than the tropical islands of the Fire Nation. [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a9/b1/76/a9b1764cfee07061875d6ac37fb9f9df.jpg You can compare the the two sets of swimwear here.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' The title characters are seen wearing one (they're ConjoinedTwins) when they go swimming, as seen in the episode "Shriek Loves Dog" (also when they dive into a pile of diamonds [[spoiler:which are actually rock candy]] in the episode "Diamond Fever").

* WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} has been known to wear this whenever he goes out in the water (i.e., "Hawaiian Holiday", "How To Swim", "WesternAnimation/{{Aquamania}}").
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Granny Smith wears an old-fashioned women's bathing suit in "Leap of Faith", when Flim & Flam's "miracle cure" inspires her to relive her days as an aqua-pony.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': "The Deep End" has Stan wearing an old-fashioned striped bathing suit at the town's swimming pool. It also serves to hide the mysterious tattoo on his back.
* ComicBook/TheJoker wears one when he goes swimming in Mayor Hill's pool in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. [[BrainBleach (Of course, taking into account his clown-white skin, bikini briefs would have been even more horrible.)]]
* ''WebAnimation/MightyMagiswords'': Ralphio and King Rexxtopher wear them in the episode "Pool Fools". Everyone else wears more modern swimsuits, even Old Man Oldman.

* Mirroring their publicity photo shoot, WesternAnimation/TheBeatles wear these in the episode "Boys." They look completely out of place compared to the guys who congregate at a beach for a movie studio's Mr. Hollywood contest.

* On ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', Sheldon and Amy wear these in one of their"[[ShowWithinAShow Fun With Flags]]" segments.

* In ''[[Literature/CheaperByTheDozen Belles on Their Toes]]'', the girls are wearing skirted bathing suits with leggings in 1924, when one-piece suits are starting to become the norm. Mother's is even worse, described as "practically a Gay Nineties model" and able to pass for a circus tent. Martha scandalizes her sisters when she forgets her suit and decides to wear just the underpart of her mother's.

* The wizards wear these when they are [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial definitely not on a tropical beach holiday]] in ''Discworld/TheLastContinent'', only made suitably wizardly:

* Milo accidentally includes a photo of himself wearing this style of swimsuit, plus a goofy-looking inner tube, in a slideshow presentation in ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''.
* ''Disney/TheThreeCaballeros'':

* Harris from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon64'' is the man to wear one at the Swimming Festival.